APT Research Private Limited Data Analytics Interview Questions, Process, and Tips

Round duration - 45 Minutes
Round difficulty - Easy

The interviewer was friendly. Explained the question well. Allowed to use any preferred platform to write code.

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Best Time to Buy and Sell Stock Problem Statement
Given an array prices representing the prices of a stock where each element indicates the price at a given minute, determine the maximum profit you can ac...read more
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Find the maximum profit by buying and selling a stock once based on given prices.
• Iterate through the prices array and keep track of the minimum price seen so far and the maximum profit achievable.

• Calculate the profit by subtracting the current price from the minimum price and update the maximum profit if needed.

• Return the maximum profit, ensuring it is not negative.

• Example: prices = [2, 100, 150, 120], Buy at 2, sell a
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Round duration - 60 Minutes
Round difficulty - Medium

Q1. 
Dance Team Pairing Challenge
Imagine you are helping Ninja, a dance coach, who needs to form dance pairs from the available boys and girls in a studio. Given the number of boys N, the number of girls M, a...read more
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The challenge involves forming dance pairs from available boys and girls based on potential pairings to maximize the number of pairs.
• Parse the input to get the number of test cases, boys, girls, and potential pairings.

• Iterate through the potential pairings and form pairs based on the given indexes.

• Output '1' if a set of maximum possible pairs is returned, else output '0'.

• There can be multiple valid configurations of pa...read more
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Q2. What is the difference between multiprocessing and multithreading?
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Multiprocessing involves multiple processes running concurrently, while multithreading involves multiple threads within a single process.
• Multiprocessing utilizes multiple processes to execute tasks simultaneously.

• Multithreading involves multiple threads within a single process sharing the same memory space.

• Multiprocessing is typically used for CPU-bound tasks, while multithreading is more suitable for I/O-bound tasks.

• E...read more
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Round duration - 60 Minutes
Round difficulty - Hard

Q1. Can you describe the classes and functions involved in the design of a system like Splitwise?
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Splitwise is a system for managing shared expenses among groups of people.
• Classes: User, Expense, Group

• Functions: addExpense(), settleUp(), calculateBalance()
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Round duration - 60 Minutes
Round difficulty - Hard

DSA medium level questions were asked.

Q1. Design MakeMyTrip kind of application.
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MakeMyTrip is a travel booking application that allows users to book flights, hotels, and holiday packages.
• Include features like flight/hotel search, booking, payment gateway integration, and user profiles.

• Implement filters for search results, reviews/ratings for hotels, and notifications for booking updates.

• Integrate maps for location tracking, weather forecasts, and customer support chatbot.

• Offer discounts, loyalty p...read more
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Q2. Oops based questions.
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Q1. Tell me about your self
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Q2. How many work experience
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Q1. What is expectation for salary
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Q1. They asked specific questions about the industry i would be focused on
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Q1. How do you handle complex valuation metrics for technology companies
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I analyze various factors such as revenue growth, market share, competitive landscape, and future prospects to determine the valuation of technology companies.
• I research and analyze financial statements, industry reports, and market trends.

• I consider the company's revenue growth, market share, and competitive landscape.

• I evaluate the company's future prospects and potential for innovation.

• I use various valuation method...read more
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Aptitude test was the mixture of common aptitude questions along with sql, basic javascript and java language basic questions and couple of simple coding questions like febinachi series, palindrom pattern etc .

Q1. They started from basic of java and some frameworks like springboot and then moved to advance of these topics.
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Q2. Springboot annotations Opps concept run-time and compile time polimorphisam SQL quesries for Select and Joins
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Q1. Level 2 interview from the same topics along with abstraction and interface Constructor overriding is possible or not? dependency injection
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Q2. Ways to create object in java.
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Objects in Java can be created using the 'new' keyword, constructors, and factory methods.
• Use the 'new' keyword followed by the class name to create an object

• Objects can also be created using constructors to initialize the object's state

• Factory methods can be used to create objects without exposing the instantiation logic
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There was basic GD topic

Q1. Google form was shared in which 15 questions were there and 3 were apti questions (work ,time ,speed) and others were from java programming and the time given was 2 hours.
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Q1. In this only you will be asked theoretical questions like DBMS, JAVA, Programming, Your Project for programming he will ask only logic and will not ask you to code.
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Q1. Count the number of words and their frequency
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Count the number of words and their frequency
• Split the given text into words using whitespace as delimiter

• Create a dictionary to store the word frequency

• Iterate through each word and update the frequency in the dictionary

• Return the dictionary with word frequency
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Q2. Count frequency of characters.
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Count the frequency of characters in a given string.
• Iterate through the string and use a hash map to store the count of each character.

• Initialize the count of each character to 0 and increment it as you encounter the character.

• Finally, iterate through the hash map to get the frequency of each character.
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Q3. Reversing the array
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Reverses an array of strings
• Use a loop to iterate through half of the array

• Swap the elements at the current index with the corresponding element from the end of the array
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Q4. Implementing the comparator function for sorting
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Implementing the comparator function for sorting an array of strings.
• Use the built-in sort() function in most programming languages.

• Define a custom comparator function that compares two strings.

• Return a negative value if the first string should come before the second, a positive value if it should come after, and 0 if they are equal.

• Example: ['apple', 'banana', 'cherry'] can be sorted in alphabetical order using the co
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